Doc fixes.

7 files changed, 16 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/international/characters.el b/lisp/international/characters.el
index 4eec1209a8a..ba55a2c7677 100644
--- a/lisp/international/characters.el
+++ b/lisp/international/characters.el
@@ -54,13 +54,13 @@
 
 ;; For each group (row) of 2-byte character sets.
 
-(define-category ?A "Alpha numeric characters of 2-byte character sets")
+(define-category ?A "Alpha-numeric characters of 2-byte character sets")
 (define-category ?C "Chinese (Han) characters of 2-byte character sets")
-(define-category ?G "Greek characters of 2-byte characters sets")
+(define-category ?G "Greek characters of 2-byte character sets")
 (define-category ?H "Japanese Hiragana characters of 2-byte character sets")
 (define-category ?K "Japanese Katakana characters of 2-byte character sets")
 (define-category ?N "Korean Hangul characters of 2-byte character sets")
-(define-category ?Y "Cyrillic character of 2-byte character sets")
+(define-category ?Y "Cyrillic characters of 2-byte character sets")
 (define-category ?I "Indian Glyphs")
 
 ;; For phonetic classifications.
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
 (define-category ? 
   "This character counts as a space for indentation purposes.")
 
-;; Keep the followings for `kinsoku' processing.  See comments in
+;; Keep the following for `kinsoku' processing.  See comments in
 ;; kinsoku.el.
 (define-category ?> "A character which can't be placed at beginning of line.")
 (define-category ?< "A character which can't be placed at end of line.")
diff --git a/lisp/startup.el b/lisp/startup.el
index 1bb948ea0a8..32fe585682c 100644
--- a/lisp/startup.el
+++ b/lisp/startup.el
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ with the contents of the startup message."
   "*Non-nil inhibits the initial startup echo area message.
 Setting this variable takes effect
 only if you do it with the customization buffer
-or it your `.emacs' file contains a line of this form:
+or if your `.emacs' file contains a line of this form:
  (setq inhibit-startup-echo-area-message \"YOUR-USER-NAME\")
 If your `.emacs' file is byte-compiled, use the following form instead:
  (eval '(setq inhibit-startup-echo-area-message \"YOUR-USER-NAME\"))
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ Emacs never sets this variable itself.")
   "The brand of keyboard you are using.
 This variable is used to define
 the proper function and keypad keys for use under X.  It is used in a
-fashion analogous to the environment value TERM.")
+fashion analogous to the environment variable TERM.")
 
 (defvar window-setup-hook nil
   "Normal hook run to initialize window system display.
diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el b/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el
index 080c221a48e..2499111a767 100644
--- a/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el
+++ b/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el
@@ -774,13 +774,13 @@ The last occurring definition in the buffer will be used.")
     ;; identification of the computer name, e.g.:
     ;; "\\(\\w\\|-\\)+[.:@]\\(\\w\\|-\\)*\\([.:/@]+\\(\\w\\|-\\|~\\)+\\)+"
     )
-  "A-list expressing begining and end of regions not to spell check.
+  "Alist expressing beginning and end of regions not to spell check.
 The alist key must be a regular expression.
 Valid forms include:
   (KEY) - just skip the key.
-  (KEY . REGEXP) - skip to the end REGEXP.  REGEXP may be string or symbol.
+  (KEY . REGEXP) - skip to the end of REGEXP.  REGEXP may be string or symbol.
   (KEY REGEXP) - skip to end of REGEXP.  REGEXP must be a string.
-  (KEY FUNCTION ARGS) - function called with args returns end of region.")
+  (KEY FUNCTION ARGS) - FUNCTION called with ARGS returns end of region.")
 
 
 
@@ -1984,7 +1984,7 @@ Return non-nil if not aborted."
 
 
 ;;; Creates the regexp for skipping a region.
-;;; Makes the skip-regxp local for tex buffers adding in the
+;;; Makes the skip-regexp local for tex buffers adding in the
 ;;; tex expressions to skip as well.
 ;;; Call AFTER ispell-buffer-local-parsing.
 (defun ispell-begin-skip-region-regexp ()
@@ -2780,7 +2780,7 @@ Both should not be used to define a buffer-local dictionary."
 ; LocalWords:  pgp NZST Vignaux autoloaded loaddefs aff Francais Nederlands SPC
 ; LocalWords:  popup nonmenu regexp herr num pers dict unhighlight ccept uit NB
 ; LocalWords:  buf grep sync prev inc hilight olddot AIX ersion msg read's op
-; LocalWords:  bufs pt regxp multibyte cmd Quinlan uuencoded esp unidiff eg sc
+; LocalWords:  bufs pt multibyte cmd Quinlan uuencoded esp unidiff eg sc
 ; LocalWords:  VM lns HTML eval american IspellPersDict
 
 ;;; ispell.el ends here
diff --git a/src/charset.h b/src/charset.h
index 17331f2495b..a3989d9623b 100644
--- a/src/charset.h
+++ b/src/charset.h
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ extern int charset_big5_2;	/* Big5 Level 2 (Chinese Traditional) */
   Emacs has two kinds of representation of a character: multi-byte
   form (for buffer and string) and single-word form (for character
   object in Emacs Lisp).  The latter is called "character code" here
-  after.  Both representation encode the information of charset and
+  after.  Both representations encode the information of charset and
   POSITION-CODE but in a different way (for instance, MSB of
   POSITION-CODE is set in multi-byte form).
 
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ extern int charset_big5_2;	/* Big5 Level 2 (Chinese Traditional) */
 /*** GENERAL NOTE on COMPOSITE CHARACTER ***
 
   A composite character is a character composed from several (up to
-  16) non-composite characters (components).  Although each components
+  16) non-composite characters (components).  Although each component
   can belong to any charset, a composite character itself belongs to
   the charset `charset-composition' and is assigned a special
   leading-code `LEADING_CODE_COMPOSITION' for multi-byte form.  See
diff --git a/src/coding.c b/src/coding.c
index f6945d07308..2a986fd1d4e 100644
--- a/src/coding.c
+++ b/src/coding.c
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ Lisp_Object Vcoding_system_for_write;
 Lisp_Object Vlast_coding_system_used;
 
 /* A vector of length 256 which contains information about special
-   Latin codes (espepcially for dealing with Microsoft code).  */
+   Latin codes (especially for dealing with Microsoft codes).  */
 Lisp_Object Vlatin_extra_code_table;
 
 /* Flag to inhibit code conversion of end-of-line format.  */
diff --git a/src/emacs.c b/src/emacs.c
index 3a1e0f2b5ff..671c6eb4b62 100644
--- a/src/emacs.c
+++ b/src/emacs.c
@@ -599,7 +599,7 @@ main (argc, argv, envp)
           printf ("You may redistribute copies of Emacs\n");
           printf ("under the terms of the GNU General Public License.\n");
           printf ("For more information about these matters, ");
-          printf ("see the files named COPYING.\n");
+          printf ("see the file named COPYING.\n");
           exit (0);
         }
     }
diff --git a/src/xdisp.c b/src/xdisp.c
index 365b172c8a4..6a14f44d775 100644
--- a/src/xdisp.c
+++ b/src/xdisp.c
@@ -3797,7 +3797,7 @@ display_text_line (w, start, start_byte, vpos, hpos, taboffset, ovstr_done)
       else
         {
           /* C is a multibyte character or a character to be displayed
-             by octral form.  */
+             by octal form.  */
           int remaining_bytes = len;
 
           if (c >= 0400)